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Madhya Pradesh’s anti-terror squad (ATS) arrested four Bangladeshis on the intervening night between March 12, 2022 and March 13, 2022 for allegedly being a part of the Islamic terror organisation Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) that detonated 500 small bombs across 300 locations in the neighbouring country.
The state police arrested Fazhar Ali, Mohd Aqeel, Zahuruddin and Fazhar Jainul Abdin after a raid at a rented accommodation in the Aishbagh area of Bhopal, said New Indian Express. Meanwhile, the Times of India reported that two of the accused were caught in the Karond locality.
The right-wing social media used this news to further propagate Islamophobia.
⚡ 4 Bangladeshi terrorist of banned Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terror group arrested from Bhopal in joint ops of Central & state agencies .
Explosive recovered from hideout which is near mosque. ???
— Naren Mukherjee ?? (@narendra52) March 13, 2022
In reality, the press note that is publicly available did not state any specifics as to where the four men were caught. The statement only read that the four men were allegedly planning to create a remote-base/sleeper cell to carry out anti-national activities in the future.
“We found jihadi literature, electronic appliances and like laptop, mobiles and suspicious documents with the arrested and thus found out that the individuals belong to the JMB,” said the police.
Aside from the 2005 bomb-blast, the JMB was also involved in attacks in 2014 and 2018. In 2015,the JMB was involved in pushing large consignments of fake Indian currency into West Bengal and Assam.
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